迪士尼影片中,存在著善與惡的角色,他們的行為總是被清楚地劃分,而角色所傳遞的價值與迷思往往也代表著製作動畫者所偏好的價值觀。因此,迪士尼動畫的背後,隱藏著意識型態與美國社會經濟文化之間的密切關係,本研究試圖檢視迪士尼經典動畫裡的惡棍形象,並視迪士尼惡棍為社會焦慮與恐懼的反射。 本研究揭示了迪士尼影片中偏差的惡棍形象所傳達的意識形態,更說明迪士尼世界中英雄與公主的存在是仰賴於依賴文化特權與社會不公的體制之上。迪士尼「惡棍」在動畫中被以一種「顛倒錯亂」、「性慾過多」、「癲狂」、「醜陋」及「邊緣」的形象呈現,這些都是迪士尼為了鞏固英雄獨尊地位的手段,但這樣的形象卻也讓「惡棍」擁有了在英雄秩序之外的反動力量。
In Disney characters, the distinction between good and evil, proper and improper behavior, is always clear in the character’s actions. And characters narrate the values and myths dear to the producer, representing the producer’s preferred values and themes to the audience. Because of understanding Disney animation helps clarify the intimate relationship between ideology and socio-economic practice, this research was designed to examine images about villains portrayed in Disney animated classics and treats Disney villains as reflections of social fears and anxieties. The research discloses that Disney plays a key part in propagating deviant images of villains, and reveals that Disney’s dream world of individual heroes and princesses rests on cultural privilege and social inequality. Although villains of Disney are presented in the transgressive, sexual, crazy, ugly and fringe images, and these are Disney’s measures for the sake of consolidating hero’s status, but such images still give villains power outside the Disney hero’s order.